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'''Hanover Communications''' is a UK based PR firm founded in 1998 by [[Charles Lewington]], the firm was known as [[Media Strategy]] untill 2007.  
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'''Hanover Communications''' is a UK based PR firm founded in 1998 by [[Charles Lewington]], the firm was known as [[Media Strategy]] untill 2007.
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Hanover was criticised in September 2007 in what was dubbed a 'cash for access' story. A strategy document that Hanover had produced suggested it could organise a trip to Downing Street as part of a £181,000 bid to run the Medical Technology Group, a coalition of industry and patient groups linked to the Association of British Insurers (ABHI).
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According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the pitch suggested that Hanover would try to secure a picture with Gordon Brown for £5,100. It also claims that it would seek access to Dawn Primarolo, the Paymaster General. The package was offered for Medical Technology Week, in which a group of patients visits the Treasury, Department of Health and No 10. “We will work to secure photocalls with ministers. The key photocall will be with Gordon Brown,” it says. A document sent to the ABHI also mentions Nicola Murphy, a former adviser to Mr Brown. 
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Ms Murphy was to join Hanover as an associate director the following month. The pitch says: “As well as . . . a five-year spell in the Treasury, Nicola has been working in the Prime Minister’s private parliamentary office for 12 months handling Gordon Brown’s leadership election.”<ref>Paul Hutcheon, "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2518102.ece Denial from Downing St as lobbyist offers trips to No 10]", The Times, 24 September 2007, accessed 28 November 2008</ref> 
  
 
==People==
 
==People==

Revision as of 01:11, 28 November 2008

Hanover Communications is a UK based PR firm founded in 1998 by Charles Lewington, the firm was known as Media Strategy untill 2007.

'Cash for Access'

Hanover was criticised in September 2007 in what was dubbed a 'cash for access' story. A strategy document that Hanover had produced suggested it could organise a trip to Downing Street as part of a £181,000 bid to run the Medical Technology Group, a coalition of industry and patient groups linked to the Association of British Insurers (ABHI).

According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the pitch suggested that Hanover would try to secure a picture with Gordon Brown for £5,100. It also claims that it would seek access to Dawn Primarolo, the Paymaster General. The package was offered for Medical Technology Week, in which a group of patients visits the Treasury, Department of Health and No 10. “We will work to secure photocalls with ministers. The key photocall will be with Gordon Brown,” it says. A document sent to the ABHI also mentions Nicola Murphy, a former adviser to Mr Brown.

Ms Murphy was to join Hanover as an associate director the following month. The pitch says: “As well as . . . a five-year spell in the Treasury, Nicola has been working in the Prime Minister’s private parliamentary office for 12 months handling Gordon Brown’s leadership election.”[1]

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Contact, References and Resources

Contact

Website: www.hanovercomms.com

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References

  1. ↑ Paul Hutcheon, "Denial from Downing St as lobbyist offers trips to No 10", The Times, 24 September 2007, accessed 28 November 2008
  2. ↑ The Week in Lobbying, Hanover has hired a new senior consultant from Labour Friends of Israel. Rebecca Simon makes the switch to Charles Lewington's agency, having been deputy director at LFI. (Accessed: 13 October 2008).
  3. ↑ Hanover Website Our people accessed 24th September 2008
  4. ↑ Hanover Website What we do accessed 24th September 2008
  5. ↑ Co-Sponsored event: talk by Jeremy Hunt, 29 October 2008
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